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are, or ought to be, totally discarded, and his education to be commenced 

 and completed by legitimate and uninjurious implements ; by -whole- 

 some restraint, moderate correction, a;id rational ai)peals tu his natural 

 docility. 



Let us now borrow a little practice from Mr. Adams. To mount a 

 Horse, present yourself on the near, or left side, rather before the shoul- 

 der, the whip or switch in your left-hand, because the right-hand must 

 be full of action, moving from place to place, and the whip being moved 

 might disturb the Horse. Take the reins, single or double, in your left- 

 hand, and sulFiciently tight to hold the Horse, then standing with your 

 left-breast towards the Horse's shoulder, take hold of the stirrup-leather 

 with your right-hand, to steady it, while you raise the left-foot and place 

 it in the stirrup. 



If you are low in stature, and the Horse high, you will be obliged to 

 support yourself on the ball of the right foot, and by a sudden spring at 

 the same time, the right hand must quit the stirrup, and catch hold of 

 the hinder part, or cantle of the saddle, and thereby raise yourself in the 

 stirrup. 



Here pause, that you may deliberately lift your leg over, at the same 

 time removing your right-hand from the cantle to the pommel, to steady 

 yourself while you are seated. 



Next, place your right-foot in the stirrup, and let go the mane from 

 the left-hand, but not the reins, which ought at hrst to be placed as they 

 are to remain; adjust your clothes, and exchange the whip from the 

 left-hand to the right ; accustom your Horse to stand, till you request 

 him to move. In dismounting, you disengage yourself from the Horse 

 in like manner. Mr. Adams joins with Lord Pembroke in opinion, that 

 it is proper to be expert at mounting on either side the Horse ; of the 

 truth of which I never entertained the smallest doubt, carrying the idea 

 beyond the military service; since no person who is much on horseback, 

 even in the field or upon the road, but will have frequent opportunities 

 of proving its convenience. Nevertheless, such practice stands in the 

 same predicament with the use of the left-hand, which, however im- 

 portant it may be, with respect to emergencies, men are too indolent to 

 acquire, or to teach their children. 



The managed SEAT,styled by Mr. Adams fundamental, is that medium 



position 



